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Breakfast thoughts

GinLynGinLynMember
Not an urgent or very important question, but...

What do people eat for breakfast? Since moving to Europe I've been eating granola. It helped thicken things up and takes no time to prepare. (I have two kids and a dog to get out the door each morning, I don't have time for more than a couple minutes prep!) But since my last surgery, the granola has been causing awful, terrible gas. I went off it for three weeks when I was visiting NA and voila! No gas or gas pain. Came back, started eating granola again, and horrible pains.

So, obviously I can't do that. But other cereal options here are EXTREMELY limited, and no instant stuff (like instant oatmeal). Due to the allergies of one of my children, no peanut/nut products are allowed in our house, which further limits options, plus my time issue (I need FAST which is why Cheerios -- I miss Cheerios!!! -- are so great). And I just can't deal with toast every morning!

I was wondering about cooking oats, but then thought that by the time I add enough honey or brown sugar to make it taste less like wallpaper paste I'd be killing any nutritional value... Although I'm probably deluding myself as I know the instant varieties are incredibly high in sugar as well.

Anyway, what do you all eat?

Gin
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CTBarristerCTBarristerMember
I have pretty much the same carb-less breakfast every day: two jumbo scrambled eggs beaten with soy milk, salt and pepper, 2 strips of turkey bacon, and 17 ounces coffee (Tully's Italian Roast K cups). Occasionally to vary things I will eat one 6 ounce cup yogurt and a honeycrisp apple sliced and then spread with natural peanut butter. I prefer probiotic yogurts. I do not eat any cereals any more.
n/an/aMember
Some days I have oatmeal topped with a big scoop of greek yogurt, bananas, peanut butter and cinnamon. I'd prefer it with sugar of some sort, but the cinnamon and plain yogurt adds some flavor. Other days, I have a couple of eggs, either poached or fried, with bacon and toast. Coffee, too. My pouch handles both well.
skn69skn69Member
Hi Gin,
You can make the cooking oats in the microwave oven to speed things up ( Big Grin)...what I do is boil water in my electric tea kettle and mix it with the cooking oats and then add the honey or sugar/cinnamon on top (I like to add raisins) and pop the whole thing in the microwave for 3xs 30secs...you can figure it out with your microwave and its cooking times...works just fine for me when I need to thicken things up or just want a quick, hot meal or desert...I only have liquids for breakfast myself...lots of coffee, water and a juice but then again I have a k pouch and really don't want things to thicken up in there.
Hope that this helps
Sharon
kathy smithkathy smithMember
I found when we were visiting Prague that a couple of scrambled eggs in the morning worked really well and staved off hunger for quite a long time. Also, I wonder if you can cook oatmeal in the evening and then just warm it up in a microwave in the morning. I don't think you'd be killing any nutritional value by adding honey or sugar. Although, n/a's suggestion of adding a big dollop of greek yogurt sounds pretty awesome.

kathy Big Grin

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